Collar-stay.



PATENTED APR. 24, 1906.

L. G. COLLINS.

COLLAR STAY.

APPLIOATION FILED APR.21, 1905.

O0OOOOOOOOOOOOOO ITED STATES, PATENT orrron.

LEVA (J. COLLINS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

COLLAR-STAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 21, 1905. Serial No. 256.808.

To all whom, it may concern: 1 terminal stays consist of narrow strips of any Be it known that I, LEVA C. COLLINS, a l suitable material having longitudinal slits citizen of the United States, residing in the throughout preferably nearly the entire city and county of Philadelphia, State of length thereof. In the terminal strips these Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usel longitudinal slits are preferably placed at one ful Improvement in Collar-Stays, of which the side of the central line in order to provide a following is a specification. wider part of the strip for the attachment of In ladies neckwear, and particularly in I hooks or eyes 7 8 or other fastening means standing collars and such constructions of the by rivets or in any suitable manner, as by stock type,it is quite desirable to avoid muss- I sewing through the apertures 9. In the ends ing and the distressed appearance of light of the stays I preferably form apertures 10 in fabrics when secured about the throat with I No. 818,817. Patented April 24, 1906.

order that longitudinal movement of the out stltiening means. Efforts have heretostays may be definitely prevented by sewing fore been made to secure this end by underlythrough these apertures, if desired, and that ing stocks and by stiflening, which must be the cover may be secured at these points. sewed from side to side or through holes al- One of the terminal stays is provided with ready punched, resulting in injury to the aphooks and the other with eyes for the purpearance and delay in the fastening by rea pose of forming cooperating attaching means son of the necessity of searching for the prefor the two ends of the collar in order that it determined apertures and before the needle may be speedily and securely fastened about is passed through them.

the throat. The longitudinal slits are pro- The object of my invention is to provide vided for the purpose of permitting a needle such stiffening means for the collar which is to be passed therethrough in sewing the stays quickly and readily secured in place and which in position. The collar would ordinarily is of suitable material to prevent the wrinoverlap the stays, and this is the preferable khng and wilting common. to collars without form. The illustration in Fig. 1 has been such stiffening means.

taken in rear elevation to show an underlying A further ob ect of my invention is to procollar in order to more clearly illustrate the vide bordering edges or terminal stays to be stays in their position with the hooks and secured to the collar and having upon them eyes in place. In the intermediate stays I attaching means for'securing one edge of the provide the longitudinal slit 6, preferably collar to the other when it is in position.

centraling of the stay. In order to provide a A further object of my invention is to imcovering for the stays to prevent the mateprove the appearance and the wearing qualirial thereof showing through the material of ties of the collar.

the collar, I have preferred to supply a tubu- My invention further consists of novel delar coating or covering 11, which is prefertails of construction, all as willbe hereinafter ably in a continuous tube and cut oil in fully set forth.

lengths somewhat longer than the stay by the Figure 1 represents a rear elevation of a length 12, which is turned back upon the end collar in extended position, showing several of the stay and which is secured in place at of my stiffening devices in place. Fig. 2 rep the same time that the cover 11 is maintained resents an elevation of a preferred form of my tight by means of the hollow rive-ts 13, which stiffening-strip. Fig 3 represents aview corstill permit sewing through the aperture 10. responding to Fig. 2, but showing a portion In Fig. 5 I have shown a stay with two lonof a covering in place. Fig. 4 represents a gitudinal slits. It will be evident that any longitudinal section corresponding to line was number of such slits may be provided and of Fig. 3 of a completely-covered stay. Fig. that the slits will be formed centrally at uni- 5 represents an elevation of a modification of form distances from the sides of the strip or my device. Fig. 6 represents an elevation of in any other preferred form. a terminal stay of a type illustrated in Fig. 1. In operation I make use of the strips either Similar numerals of reference indicate corbare, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or covered, as responding parts in the figures. illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4. The strips are Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a readily sewed in place, because the longitucollar of any suitable material having bordinal slits are throughout their entire length dering edges 2 3, provided with stitfeningat approximately the same distance from the stays 4 5 of the type shown in Fig. 6. The edge of the slit, which once determined fixes the location of these slits for passage of the needle sewing them presenting no difficulty. The covered stays are likewise readily secured in place, the sewing passing through the cover and the slit of the same or, where desired,

through the edge of the covering alone.

The terminal stays may evidently be furnished with the hooks and eyes or other cooperating attaching means in place as a finished article requiring fastening to the collar only to complete a firm handy means of close and secure attachment throughout the length of the division-line between the ends. The slit for attachment may evidently be located upon either the inner or outer side of the line of attachment between the stay and the hooks, &c.

It will be evident that the stays may be made of aluminium, bone, or any other suitable material, that they may be of any desired dimensions, and that the exterior of the stay or the covering thereof may be decorated or ornamented in any desired manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device ofthe character described, a strip slitted uninterruptedly throughout substantially its entire length the slit of which is without the axis of the strip in combination with a tight cover for said strip.

2 In a device of the character described, terminal strips each divided longitudinally by a slit into portions of different width whose edges support each other and cooper.-

ating fastening devices secured to the strips upon their wider portions.

3. In a device of the character described, a collar, terminal strips therefor, having slits therein, cover upon the strips and fastening devices upon the strips to secure the latter together. 4

4. In a device of the character described, a strip of uniform thickness, longitudinally slitted throughout substantially its length, and a tight-fitting tubular covering secured to the strip at its ends.

5. In a device of the character described, a single longitudinally-slitted strip integral at its ends, whereby the same is of uniform thickness, a tubular covering closely engaging the strip and means passing through the body of the strip for securing the covering thereto.

LEVA O. COLLINS. Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, O. D. MoVAY. 

